Rear-curtain sync

A flash setting in which the flash fires at the end of the exposure, just before the second shutter curtain closes. It is also called second-curtain sync.

With a slow shutter speed, a moving subject leaves a blurred trail behind it and is frozen by the flash at the end. This makes the movement look natural. With normal (front-curtain) sync, the trail appears in front of the subject.

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